Professor Macklin characterized revocation of citizenship as cruel and either inhuman or unusual punishment. We have been doing that for people, particularly war criminals who have failed to declare their involvement in war crimes before they came here. I haven't heard her comment on that. We've been doing it for a limited number of reasons, a limited number of people.
I wouldn't want to downgrade the war criminal thing, but surely threats of terrorism against Canada are serious. In terms of deterrent, it might deter some young people who happen to have dual citizenship from going and taking training in Somalia or Afghanistan if they knew we were going to get tough on them and they weren't going to come back here and resume their studies, or do whatever they have in mind, when they were through blowing up people in other countries.